Top 90 John Kasich Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Nothing is more important to me than my family, my faith, and my friends.”

— John Kasich

2. “I believe we can solve anything. I believe people working together can lift everybody.”

— John Kasich

3. “If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can’t ignore the quality of the environment we leave them.”

— John Kasich

4. “God gives me unconditional love. I’m going to give it to my family and my friends and the people around me.”

— John Kasich

5. “Let’s start off with my father being a mailman.”

— John Kasich

6. “I’m not a big guy that believes that you gain energy from demonizing other people. I think you gain energy from giving people hope.”

— John Kasich

7. “We will strengthen our country when we come together.”

— John Kasich

8. “Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.”

— John Kasich

9. “We’ve got to unite our country again, because we’re stronger when we are united and we are weaker when we are divided.”

— John Kasich

10. “I can’t work any harder. I can’t do any more. I am literally just blown away and humbled by the volunteers and how hard they’re working. I think they’ve got a sense that they’re going to be part of something bigger than themselves.”

— John Kasich

11. “You know, since the 6th century, Sunni and Shia have been fighting.”

— John Kasich

12. “I’m not a plotter or a schemer. I’m a guy that looks at problems and tries to solve them, which I have done all of my career, creating jobs in Washington, creating jobs in Ohio.”

— John Kasich

13. “A friend asked one of my daughters, “Do you like politics?” And my daughter said, “No, I don’t. And the reason I don’t like it is because there’s too much fighting, too much yelling. It’s so loud, I don’t like it.” You know, I turned to my friend and I said, “You know, she’s really on to something.””

— John Kasich

14. “I worry about America. For the first time in my lifetime, I’m worried about us, i’m worried about how our values to some degree have been eroded, of personal responsibility and compassion and teamwork. I worry about it, I worry about the fact that we’re so divided.”

— John Kasich

15. “A leader has a sound program, has a good policy, and then brings people together to solve problems.”

— John Kasich

16. “I don’t think America should be the policeman of the world, but we have to be engaged and we have to be a leader, and that comes from strong economic growth, a strong military, good diplomatic efforts, and integrating our business community. I just think it’s a whole new paradigm.”

— John Kasich

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17. “America is a miracle country.”

— John Kasich

18. “We don’t have to fight all the time. It can be done, and we will be great when we join together.”

— John Kasich

19. “People are frustrated. They’re fed up. They don’t think the government is working for them.”

— John Kasich

20. “Sometimes people just don’t understand the way that I work in politics.”

— John Kasich

21. “If you go into a room of 100-plus people, and you want to be the prince of darkness, you can be it. But I don’t operate in the dark, I operate in the light.”

— John Kasich

22. “I’m an old-fashioned person and I happen to believe in traditional marriage.”

— John Kasich

23. “There is a difference between Iraq, where you have Sunni, Shia, and Kurds put together after the First World War by the Western powers. It doesn’t work. It needs to break up into three parts.”

— John Kasich

24. “Politics can not only be drudgery and Captain Queeg with the balls in his hands.”

— John Kasich

25. “I don’t want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington. And if people have an opinion, it’s a religious opinion that is heartly felt, obviously they should be allowed to practice that and no government should interfere with them.”

— John Kasich

26. “Every time I go to Washington, I break out in a cold sweat. So I try not to spend too much time there.”

— John Kasich

27. “We need to give everybody a chance, treat everybody with respect, and let them share in this great American dream that we have.”

— John Kasich

28. “I’ve always been underestimated. It’s happened throughout my entire career.”

— John Kasich

29. “I mean, the fact of the matter is, Ohio ’s coming back because we set a clear path, we cut taxes, we balanced our budget, we got credit upgrades when the whole rest of the world, including America, was being downgraded.”

— John Kasich

30. “The republican party is my vehicle, not my master.”

— John Kasich

31. “Im a believer in bipartisanship.”

— John Kasich

32. “I am told that the Saudis have organized 34 countries who want to join in the battle against terrorism.”

— John Kasich

33. “I want people to hear what I think about these foundational American values of personal responsibility, resilience, family and faith, there are things that people can learn from somebody who leads a state like Ohio which is, frankly, a microcosm of the country.”

— John Kasich

34. “We’ve got to listen to other people’s voices, respect them, but keep in mind, and I believe in terms of the things that I’ve read in my lifetime, the Lord is not picking us. But because of how we respect human rights, because that we are a good force in the world, he wants America to be strong.”

— John Kasich

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35. “I do not support a civil war. I don’t want to be policeman of the world. But we can’t back off of this.”

— John Kasich

36. “People are beginning to understand my vision and my message because finally people are beginning to allow me to be heard.”

— John Kasich

37. “I’m a change agent. And what we’re beginning to see is a lot of the establish people, one more time, trying to stop me.”

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38. “We have to be tolerant of other people’s points of view; we have to be able to disagree without being disagreeable, without claiming that we have a monopoly on the truth.”

— John Kasich

39. “I think if there’s anything that’s important today, it’s credibility with the voter, because the voter is tired of being sold a bill of goods.”

— John Kasich

40. “I’m concerned about the fact there seems to be a war on the poor – that if you’re poor, somehow you’re shiftless and lazy.”

— John Kasich

41. “We have to solve the encryption problem. It is not easy.”

— John Kasich

42. “God created astrologers to make pollsters look accurate.”

— John Kasich

43. “Everybody has a right to their God-given purpose.”

— John Kasich

44. “I served on the Armed Services Committee for 18 years and we must lead, or the job won’t get done, unfortunately, for our country.”

— John Kasich

45. “You cannot build a little guy up by tearing a big guy down – Abraham Lincoln said it.”

— John Kasich

46. “Everybody across this country knows that the tsunami of drugs is – is threatening their very families.”

— John Kasich

47. “In faith, I’m a believer in the do’s – you know, love your neighbor, love your enemy. I don’t spend a lot of time thinking on the don’ts ’cause I can’t get the do’s right.”

— John Kasich

48. “Business people have a a good view of what’s happening internally in countries, and they can be a positive force.”

— John Kasich

49. “I don’t look at polls, I pay no attention to them. I pay attention to the public, and the sense of where the public is on certain things, but you have to lead.”

— John Kasich

50. “The Pentagon needs precious resources to build the strength of America, and we can’t say, ‘this is really important to this community, and it’s really not vital to the national security, but we ought to do it anyway.’ So, I think we have to have a discipline on this.”

— John Kasich